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Nonfiction The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom Adina Allen
Nonfiction Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America Hasia R. Diner
Nonfiction Just City: Growing Up on the Upper West Side When Housing Was a Human Right Jennifer Baum
Children’s Perfect Match: The Story of Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton Lori Dubbin; Amanda Quartey, illus.
Nonfiction Shylock’s Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto Harry Freedman
Nonfiction The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss Margalit Fox
Nonfiction Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century Miriam Eve Mora
Nonfiction Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth Asaf Elia-Shalev
Nonfiction The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the Visionary of Weimar Berlin Daniel Brook